Our corporate – M&A team advises company directors, investment funds and French and international industrial groups on their M&A, private equity and restructuring operations. As experts in the business world, our lawyers can offer you the best strategies for all your transactions:

– Mergers and acquisitions
– Private equity (LBOs, venture capital, growth capital, etc.)
– Support in the process of transferring family groups (structuring, optimisation)
– Restructuring of groups of companies (legal, financial and tax aspects)
– Corporate transactions: capital increases and reductions, mergers, demergers, partial contributions of assets, etc.
– Issues of simple and compound securities and share buybacks
– Joint ventures and agreements between companies

Advice and corporate governance

The life of a company is also punctuated by numerous legal stages: structuring, capital increases, day-to-day operations, relations between partners, etc. Our firm can help you with regular monitoring of the life of your company.

– Choice of legal structures and drafting of legal documents relating to the creation and life of commercial and civil companies
– Drafting statutory or extra-statutory shareholders’ agreements
– Assistance and advice to company directors

Restructuring and insolvency

– Alert procedures and prevention of difficulties
– Drawing up action plans (ad hoc mandate, conciliation, safeguard, accelerated safeguard, pre-pack, debt renegotiation, recovery plans, etc.) – Preparation, presentation and implementation of sale and continuation plans
– Reorganisation and judicial liquidation
– Management of litigation relating to insolvency proceedings

Litigation in corporate law

Over many years, our firm has developed a speciality and expertise in corporate litigation. We usually act for listed or unlisted entities and partners/shareholders in disputes between partners/shareholders, in connection with the implementation and execution of complex transactions or contentious statutory or extra-statutory undertakings.

– Protection of minority shareholders
– Absence of majority or minority
– Defending shareholders, particularly in SELs (Société d’Exercice Libéral)
– Search for evidence
– Post-acquisition litigation concerning a company’s shares
– Exercising an option